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We all believe that supermarkets have the slickest, most amazing systems for processing products and delivering them to the public at competitive prices. Recently, the emphasis has been less on ‘price match before purchase' and more on ‘refunding the difference after'. But what if parts of the Tesco purchasing team …

HTC took the fast track to smartphone fame in 2010 but spent much of 2012 going nowhere. While we were relatively impressed by the One X flagship Android smartphone and its Windows Phone 8 devices are impressive, HTC went on to release many handsets for no apparent reason – an act …

Eric Schmidt is set to visit North Korea as part of a humanitarian mission, along with Bill Richardson, a former democratic New Mexico governor who is known for his skill in sensitive negotiations. While there are a few reasons the pair are thought to be going, the US government has said they …

Another year and another version of Corning's Gorilla Glass has been announced. As you might expect the third iteration of Gorilla Glass is even tougher than its predecessors. According to Corning, Gorilla Glass 3 has a three times the scratch resistance, a 40 percent reduction in the number of visible …

While it still remains a bit of a rumour at this point, Sony is said to be looking to launch its own internet based TV channels and is currently talking with “at least two” major content creators to secure the rights to their programming. This bit of hear say comes …

Child therapists say that rebellion is a healthy and natural part of growing up, but just how far is healthy and when would rebellion become a problem? KitGuru ponders the nature of ‘too far' while researching the actions of a 16-year old girl in the USA, who tried to bypass an internet …

In recent months it has become clear that social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook have been used as a means to locate people who are breaking the law. There have also been some cases of authorities finding people who have twitted abusive comments to others. The latest news …

Gingerbread is still the most widely used version of Android, although latest reports show that 4.2 Jelly Bean has now broken the 10 percent barrier adoption rate. The information was released via the Android dashboard, correlated from data measured across a two week period. Devices were analysed as they accessed …

Accusations have flown back and forth from both camps since the beginning of Megaupload founder, Kim Dotcom's extradition inquiries – the trial still has yet to start – and the latest one to be aimed at US authorities, is that they lied to the court to get hold of the …

Samsung first introduced their Chromebox in late May of 2012 that reminded us perhaps too much of Apple's Mac Mini. In this latest version the aesthetics of the miniature desktop has been modified to look more original. Over its predecessor the new Series 3 Chromebox running Google's Chrome OS has only updated the …

Microsoft has bought up R2 Studios, a startup from the makers of the Slingbox, in a deal that had both Apple and Google in the running for highest bidder. However it looks like Microsoft was able to secure the top spot, winning itself several patents in the process. Combined with …

British telecoms regulator OfCom has announced its intention to push for a law change on current mobile contracts. It wants it to be possible for consumers to leave their mobile, landline or broadband provider mid-contract, if said provider raises prices at all. As it stands, consumers are only allowed to …

The OUYA has received a lot of attention from the press, but another tiny console has been getting some visibility lately – the Android powered ‘GameStick'. This console is actually even smaller, and less expensive than the OUYA. The console is based inside a unit around the same size as …

Apple have decided that they won't be fixing their faulty ‘Do Not Disturb (DND) function' on iOS6. They have told their user base that they should just wait until 7th January 2013 when the bug will ‘resolve itself' without the need for further action. Some developers say that they know …

One of the world's most popular private Bittorrent trackers has closed its doors, bringing an end to a six year career in game sharing and leaving behind it over 65,000 active users that are no doubt spending the early days of 2013 trying to find a decent replacement. The reason …

As part of a call for a global crackdown on tax avoidance, it has been revealed that Google is one of the biggest culprits. In 2011, the search giant pushed 80 per cent of its revenue, some £6 billion, through the island of Bermuda, thereby avoiding over £1 billion in …

Ian Livingstone, a man who's career reads like my childhood, is set to receive a CBE. He was named on the New Year's honours list, on the same day that his 63rd birthday rolled around. If the name Livingstone rings a bell but you can't put your finger on it, …

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USB drives are available now for only a few pounds in the United Kingdom, with prices dropping all the time. Even if you lose one of them on the move it isn't a big expense to replace it. A company has taken this concept to a new level by creating …

CES is quickly turning into a showcase event for new television sets and Samsung have released a ‘teaser' image for an upcoming set which is sure to cause much debate among the enthusiast audience. The image above was released by the company to show the portrait mode, useful for internet …

Sony Computer Entertainment of Japan have stopped production of the Playstation 2 console. Games however will continue to be produced for the aging but ever popular console. The Playstation 2 is a success story and is rated as the second best selling console of all time, with more than 150 …

LG have said that they are taking pre-orders in Korea for their 55 inch WRGB OLED television set. Pre-orders have not yet been announced in other countries, but they are expected to roll out between now and April. Korean customers are expected to get their hands on the new set …

Throughout 2012 we had a lot of attacks on piracy. There was the blocking of sites like The Pirate Bay, the confiscation of a nine year old girl's laptop, porn stars going after torrent users and loads more. However despite the number of anti-piracy stories, we've also had BitTorrent Inc. …

While the digital distribution model has taken a while to get going, it's certainly picked up steam now, as more and more of us find ourselves listening to music through services like Spotify, watching movies through Netflix; we're renting access to content. However, while there's been a big push with …

Many users complained of an outage on Christmas Eve, which stopped them watching their TV shows and movies via Netflix. Amazon have blamed ‘human error' for the server downtime. Amazon have said that a developer mistakenly deleted part of the ‘ELB state data' which handles the load balancing, streaming content …

As if letting people know you're out of the house and ripe for a burglary wasn't enough, Foursquare has pledged to serve up more information on its users, including full names, thanks to a change in privacy policy. As of 28th January, Foursquare will begin showing a user's entire name, …

While it still remains a rumour mere days before the annual electronics show begins, Intel could be set to debut a new type of set top box at CES, that would allow for what is being described as, “virtual cable TV.” The idea behind it is that it would offer streaming …

Since September 2012, Pakistan has had a block in place, preventing its citizens from accessing Youtube. However on 29th December, the country's higher ups lifted it temporarily in an effort to set up an in-house filter that would simply prevent people from seeing content it deemed inappropriate or blasphemous. Unfortunately, …

Back in January 1971, Richard Branson opened his first Virgin Records store at 24 Oxford Street, the ‘cheap end' as Dickie put it. Until March 1992, when he sold out to Thorn EMI for $1 Billion, his business was a huge success. Virgin's attempts to sell phones on the high …

Hands up if you think you are Eddie Van Halen because you could beat Guitar Hero on expert level? Well the next stage in the evolution to true Guitar genius has opened up thanks to the Peavey AT-200 electric guitar which features the Antares Auto Tune pitch correction technology. This …